Overview. We introduce an approach for synthesizing time-lapse videos of popular landmarks from large community photo collections. The approach is completely automated and leverages the vast quantity of photos available online. First, we cluster 86 million photos into landmarks and popular ...

Three amazing things caught in one shot. German photographer Birk Möbius captured (1) a rainbow, (2) a lightning strike aligned with the rainbow, (3) an airplane being struck by said lightning. That's the abrupt kink you see a little more than half-way up.

This statistic might be a little misleading. I think the first and third papers were done in academia, even though most authors now have industry affiliations. And, though #2 was done at Google, the first author is now a professor.﻿